Substance Quotes

936 Substance quotes by 721 unique authors

It is one of the ironies of religious history that many mortals err in their understanding of the nature of God and end up rejecting… — Neal A. Maxwell
An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen… — Wilfred Trotter
The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on… — Thomas A. Edison
Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in… — Aristotle
In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance. — S I Hayakawa
Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story of the duality… — Stanley Kubrick
The poor of the United States and of the world are your brothers and sisters in Christ. You must never be content to leave them… — Pope John Paul II
Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward,… — Jonathan Franzen
Faith is a spiritual force....It is substance. Faith has the ability to effect natural substance. — Kenneth Copeland
Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe. — Kenneth Copeland
Words create pictures, and pictures in your mind create words. And then the words come back out your mouth....And when that spiritual force comes out… — Kenneth Copeland
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced. — Barry Commoner
The substance of painting is light. — Andre Derain
Character issues such as drug abuse are not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. My reference to substance abuse, not intended to focus on any particular… — Kwame Kilpatrick
Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature,… — Gregory Bateson
It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different bacteria in different degrees. Generally… — Alexander Fleming
Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings,… — Thomas More
We cannot build the new culture for learning to which we aspire in an environment which is depressed and dampened every day by the impact… — Unknown Author
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the… — Thomas Huxley
Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the… — John Flavel
Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom. — Gaston Bachelard
The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear… — Thomas Merton
As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as… — Mary Oliver
If the blonds and blue-eyed people die out, the human race will become increasingly dense ... Blond hair actually bestows intelligence. In the case of… — Rudolf Steiner
Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance. — Yngwie Malmsteen

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